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- Record Label: Def Jam
- Genre(s): R&B
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Aug 27, 2025‘Escape Room’ reverberates with cinematic flair and curatorial focus, but its true strength lies in Taylor’s understanding of the RnB rhapsody through time; the love song that is most effective when it’s spare and submerged. For this reason, ‘Escape Room’ is as necessary as anything Teyana Taylor has ever recorded.
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Aug 27, 2025Escape Room challenges its listeners to understand that healing — be it heartbreak or bodily injury — is sometimes best done among your tight-knit community, where those who love you best remember the pieces of your soul, putting them back together again. Throughout the project, Taylor leans on her creative peers, her new love interest, and her children to hold her up as she offers a new expression of her authenticity in this moment.
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Aug 27, 2025Choppy alternation between spoken and sung parts continues through much of the program's second half, as Taylor and her guests wrangle with the power dynamics of prospective new love and (with an especially apt Jill Scott appearance) delight in magnetic physical attraction. The erotic slow jams, led by the finely wrought "Bed of Roses," tend to fade out sooner than necessary as well.
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Aug 27, 2025In the end, Taylor stands strong, heart laid bare in a tender, nuanced close to an imperfect but heartfelt album that proves that you can find your way back to yourself.